The 20 photographs of the week

Brazilian fans pictured before the opening match of the 2014 World Cup between Brazil and Croatia at the Corinthians arena in São Paulo. Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

Brazil won 3-1 in a game marred by controversial decisions by officials. Here, Croatia's players react after conceding the third goal to Brazil's Oscar. Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters

Protests continued as the tournament started. Here, in a photograph by Aris Messinis, riot police stand ready opposite demonstrators in Belo Horizonte. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP

In the tournament's most dramatic game of the week, Robin van Persie of the Netherlands scores a spectacular header against Spain. The Netherlands beat the reigning champions 5-1. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Russia's Maria Sharapova pictured after winning the French Open final against Romania's Simona Halep at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP

People throw colour powder during the Holi Festival of Colours in Moscow. The festival was originally celebrated in India to celebrate spring and to drive away evil spirits. Photograph: Alexander Utkin/AFP

Riot police surrounded by red smoke outside the Catalan parliament in Barcelona during a protest by firemen against budget cuts. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters

An Iraqi Kurdish security guard - a Peshmerga - keeps watch as Iraqi families gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski Kalak. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil, also known as Isis) began a spectacular assault in Mosul, prompting up to 500,000 people to flee their homes. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP

A member of Iraqi security forces searches volunteers who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, before they board an army truck in Baghdad. Photograph: Ahmed Saad/Reuters

Photographer Dan Kitwood was covering the situation in Iraq. This woman and small girl are pictured washing at a temporary displacement camp set up next to a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski Kalak. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty

An Israeli man is photographed by Oded Balilty at Israel's Midburn festival, which is modelled on the popular US Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Some 3,000 people set up a colorful encampment in the dusty moonscape, swinging from hoops by day and burning giant wooden sculptures by night. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Palestinian boys at play in a barrel outside their home in Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip. Some 1.6 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, of whom almost a million are UN-registered refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP

A soldier with a machine gun bullet belt securing the gate of a prison near Amran in Yemen. Around 400 inmates escaped from the prison last week during clashes between Shi'ite Muslim rebels and government forces. Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

Cleaners laid off by Greece's finance ministry are pushed back by riot police when they attempt to protest in Athens. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP

In this photograph by Bulent Kilic, a regular contributor to the 20 photographs of the week, people help a man in a wheelchair to safety during a clash between Kurdish protestors and Turkish riot police in Istanbul. The demonstration followed the death of a man during clashes the previous night in the eastern town of Lice. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Brad Pitt, foreign secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie arrive at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London's ExCel last week. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Smoke and flames rise from a house deliberately set on fire days after part of the ground on which it was built collapsed into Lake Whitney, Texas, US. Photograph: Brandon Wade/Reuters

The rotating updraft base of a supercell thunderstorm is pictured against the setting sun in Climax, Kansas, US. Photograph: Stephen Locke/Barcroft Media

Married Hindu women tie coconuts and sweets to sacred threads around a banyan tree at a ceremony during the Hindu religious festival of Vata Purnima in Mumbai, India. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

And in this final photograph, newlyweds Michael Wolber and April Hartley pose for a picture near Bend, Oregon, as a wildfire burns in the background. Because of the approaching fire, the minister conducted an abbreviated ceremony and the wedding party was evacuated to a park in downtown Bend for the reception. Photograph: Josh Newton/AP